Quote Originally Posted by jsuiters View Post
I see a problem between your label and the one on the website. I just see a few ingredients listed and not the ones listed in your links from 2013.
"My" label? I'm not sure I can follow. But, well, even HTGAM/PPF/PAA cannot violate FDA regulations for too long. So... they've reduced their list of marvellous ingredients to the basic truth, ie cheap melt and pour base and a few cheap fragrance oils.

Quote Originally Posted by jsuiters View Post
I feel confident in using because I can't find any reports of anyone who has been poisoned from shaving.
How odd. Tell you the truth, if I had caught a company trying to defraud CIA veterans, willfully mislabelling a regulated product, or staging a massive shilling attack against unsuspecting customers, I would not be quite as confident. But that is probably a YMMV thing.

Quote Originally Posted by jsuiters View Post
I'm not sure about Germany, but here in the United States of America we have wonderful hand crafted soaps made from people that not only care about the quality of their own product, but that of the entire wet shave community. I haven't ever heard of one using marketing to belittle their competition. Instead I hear, and see, them add their competitions products to their own websites.
Germany is different. It is full of godless soap Nazis. Hence the complete absence of German shaving soaps in the world market.

It's funny you should bring in nationalism in this context. Funnily enough, and despite its great achievements in terms of consumer protection elsewhere, the FDA has a blind spot when it comes to certain cosmetics products, including HTGAM/PPF/PAA "soaps". I'm sure someone will come up with manipulated software next, but in the interim, let me say that I do not feel confident at all buying hand crafted soaps from the US. For good reasons, as we all know ever since the HTGAM/PPF/PAA scandal.

Now, you may say, "but I know and trust these people", and that's great. I'm sure that most people who hand craft soap are honest people. However, there is still ample opportunity for people to sell mediocre (and worse) stuff made from Chines melt and pour base without you knowing. And that's not so great.

So, yes, Green Mountain Soap is excellent, Cold River Soap Works also very nice. Both proudly made in the US. You see, it's not a national thing. It's a regulatory thing.

Quote Originally Posted by jsuiters View Post
If you want to down the path that says only items that cost the most are worth your money then; it's your world, I'm only living in it. Whereas my preference is to find the things that I feel out preform their cost and I can truthfully say without a doubt before I even try it. MDC will never, repeat never, out perform it's cost.
It's funny how you try only seem to read what you want to read. Take a deep breath, go back a few posts, re-read what I said. I said, "MdC is vastly overpriced", "you will get the same performance for a fraction of the price from Savonnerie du bon Berger", and so on.

But if you took your own approach outlined above, you would be using Arko. Exclusively. Forever.